Lexicographical Neighbors of Cissies
Literary usage of Cissies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"... here they are not prefigured by knobs on the branches of the tendrils as in
cissies Veitchii; the ends are curved like hooks, and are barely thickened. ..."
2. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"For myself, I cannot but think that the species of sanctity which has now, ever
since the revival of learning, hedged the cissies, is destined soon to ..."
3. Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage by Laura Stubbs (1903)
"... especially when blended with the fragrance of the cissies (or flower girdles)
worn around their waists, and with that of the garlands of flowers and ..."
4. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829)
"cissies, I believe — Telemachus, and Young's , S|ta Thoughts, and Joseph Andrews,
and the Specta- I ce a)— Tom— just run out and stop the coach; ..."
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